Multi award winning Australian blues artist, Dom Turner is best known as guitarist, lead
vocalist, and founding member of the iconic Australian blues group, Backsliders. With The
Rural Blues Project Dom presents a mix of upbeat raw electric rural blues songs—from
Charley Patton to Lead Belly, Fred McDowell to RL Burnside—as well as some originals.
Joining Dom is the shuffle king himself, legendary drummer Rosscoe Clarke (Foreday
Riders, Cyril B Bunter) and violin master George Washingmachine.
Quotes:
“Turner is a phenomenal guitarist – slide and otherwise – and brilliant songwriter with
trademark vocals” Rhythms Magazine
“The man is a phenomenal blues player.” BWW Reviews
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“Turner is a phenomenal guitarist – slide and otherwise – and brilliant songwriter with
trademark vocals” Rhythms Magazine 2015
“The man is a phenomenal blues player.” BWW Reviews 2015
Dom Turner is best known as guitarist/ vocalist, founding member and key songwriter of the
iconic Australian blues group, Backsliders. He has toured the Australian festival circuit since
the 1980s and regularly appears at most major blues related music festivals including
Bluesfest, Woodford Folk Festival and Blues on Broadbeach to name but a few.
Dom’s influences are many and varied – a blend of Mississippi hill country blues, delta blues,
Piedmont blues, rock, dub and sounds of Asia. He is a highly regarded speaker on blues
music and has guested on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio programs
(including a weekly series on ABC Gold Coast entitled ‘Blues Tuesdays’ and guest presenting
Radio National’s ‘Music Deli’) and presented music workshops at festivals and in
universities (both nationally and internationally).
In 2004 Dom was voted ‘Blues Songwriter of the Year’ at the Australian Blues Awards. As
well as over 30 years of recording and performing blues in Australia and internationally with
the Backsliders, Dom has embarked on a variety of solo and collaborative musical projects
including touring as a solo artist in the USA, playing and teaching blues guitar at Augusta
Blues week in West Virginia, touring Mexico with US blues greats, Del Ray and Steve
James. His trademark ‘slide’ guitar sound can be heard on myriad session recordings and his
songs have featured on the ABC TV programme ‘Seachange’, as well as the soundtrack to
Tim Winton’s best-selling novel, ‘Dirt Music and the 2013 Channel 9 TV series ‘Underbelly
- Squizzy Taylor’. In 2008 Dom was invited onstage to play with slide guitar legend Derek
Trucks at the Adelaide international Guitar Festival.
Dom’s other musical projects include international collaborations; The Turner Brown Band
with Toledo Ohio based lap steel guitarist Nikki D Brown of the Sacred Steel guitar tradition,
Phil Wiggins & Dom Turner with US National Heritage Award recipient and harmonica
virtuoso, Phil Wiggins, Kim Sinh & Dom Turner with Vietnamese stringed instrument
master, Kim Sinh, as well as Dom Turner & Jin Hi Kim with innovative Korean komongo
musician, Jin Hi Kim.
Local projects include; ‘Supro’, a mix of dub and blues and features original and
reconstructed songs, The Angry Tradesmen, a grunge-rock project with fellow Backsliders,
Rob Hirst, Dom Turner & Tony Wheeler with Chinese Guqin musician, Tony Wheeler, Dom
Turner & Ian Collard with award-winning harmonica player and regular in Backsliders, Ian
Collard.
www.domturner.com.au
When: Live at the Glen Saturday 5 November 2022
Where: 1 Railway Ave, Glengarry VIC 3854
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CBQLR Or use the QR Code below
